Acknowledgements

The database is created by Ms Patricia Lim. We acknowledge Ms Lim for giving the permission for making the database available here, and her contribution in providing the texts, photos and sketch maps in this collection.

Ms Patricia Lim is a local history researcher and has been a teacher in Hong Kong and in other countries. She has conducted a number of heritage walks and talks for academics and interested individuals both in the cemeteries and round the New Territories. Her publications include Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: The New Territories, 1997; Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong and Kowloon, 2002; Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, 2011.